April 30, 2020
By Cecilia Tortajada, “npj Clean Water”. Water resources are essential for every development activity, not only in terms of available quantity but also in terms of quality.… Read More
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada MEGA | April 8, 2020 Some 15 years ago, China tried to improve its water management policies to reduce impacts of devastating floods, extensive pollution and poor water management practices. During the past decade, … Read More
March 27, 2020
Singapore is very fortunate as the entire population has access to clean water, soap and handwashing facilities. But are these actually used by individuals and by food handlers, whether in hawker centres or fancy restaurants? Anecdotal information indicates this is often not the case.… Read More
March 18, 2020
Climate change and natural resource pollution have become part of the national security agenda in countries all over the world. Although analysts have traditionally treated the strength of sovereign borders through the lens of political or economic issues, recent years have seen increasing attention paid to how environmental issues exacerbate, complicate, and multiply these political and economic problems.… Read More
March 6, 2020
China’s response to coronavirus has been reasonably effective, but if its policymakers are to show they’ve learned anything from this and the SARS outbreak, they must make China’s wildlife trade ban permanent.
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March 4, 2020
Chinese top leader Xi Jinping has asked Party officials to be on the “highest alert to ‘black swan’ incidents and take steps to prevent ‘gray rhino’” events. He has emphasised the importance to fight well with preemptive warfare so as to prevent and withstand risks, and at the same time fight well the war of strategic initiatives to convert danger into safety and turn crises into opportunities.… Read More
March 2, 2020
By Rosario Sanchez, Laura Rodriguez and Cecilia Tortajada, “Journal of The American Water Resources Association.” The natural complexity, heterogeneity, and extent of transboundary aquifers around the world, have led to controversy over which method or criteria should be used to identify and delineate their boundaries. … Read More
March – May 2020 Special Issue on Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas.… Read More
January 30, 2020
Kai Wegerich, Jeroen Warner and Cecilia Tortajada, “International Journal of Water Governance”. This special issue on ‘the dark side of governance’ seeks to increase knowledge and reveal new understanding of governance in two meanings.… Read More
January 23, 2020
Interests of Chinese companies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are of comparatively recent origin. Because of this, many major Chinese companies started considering seriously their ESG issues. … Read More